Peter Barakate

HWL Ebsworth Lawyers

The Australian independent commercial law firm of choice for market leading expertise and exceptional value. HWL Ebsworth is currently ranked as the largest legal partnership in Australia according to the most recent partnership surveys published by The Australian and the Australian Financial Review. With 200+ partners, and over 1000 staff in total across offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Norwest (North West Sydney), Perth and Sydney, HWL Ebsworth offers clients strength and expertise in the areas of Banking & Financial Services, Building & Construction, Corporate & Commercial, Insurance, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Planning & Environment, Government, Real Estate & Projects, Transport, Workplace Relations & Safety and more. HWL Ebsworth operates a different business model to other leading national law practices, and this allows us to offer top tier practitioners at rates which are significantly lower than those of our competitors. A fundamental principle on which our model is built, however, is that the quality and timeliness of advice provided is not negatively impacted by our desire to offer clients exceptional value. We attract high quality lawyers and support them with the best training, knowledge management resources and IT systems.